144 . MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE LEANING TOWARD 111føp yotk s 'Btgg{JÁt ,1 liff!:;A eØ Every room at least 14'x22' with individual large screen con- sole TV, air-condi- tioning, butler's pan- try, refrigerator and bathroom extension phone. AU luxurious hotel services. Just around the corner from Grand Central, both Airline Terminals, most shops and theatres. THE (. sea ny Bertram Weal, General Manager 39th Street, iust East of Park Ave., New York 16 NiUrray Hill 6-1600, Teletype NY 1-392 P. S.-May we send you a brochure? ,.. 4< I .. <..: ' , :\ . '. . . " L -- ........ -:.>>.. ìf)( : 4 tf::,: :... . --- - i ,""""; ...'A....' ';<;b..",. "- ".... '--- - Here is where to order your SEA ISLAND HATHA\NAV SHIRTS This is the splendid shirt shown and de- scribed more fully in the page Hathaway ad elsewhere in this issue. An incredibly silky Sea Island cotton broadcloth, loomed in England and tailored for us in the in- comparable Hathaway manner. Every man should own one or more for wear on important business and social occasions. French cuffs, low-slope collar. White and pin stripes (blue, brown, black) on white. They are $15. Order with confidence from dohn dar-rell, Inc. - - - - Broad at Peachtree, Atlanta, Ga. - - - - GENTLEMEN: Send me Hathaway Sea Island shirts as follows at $ T 5 each, postpaid. (SiLes available, 14 to 17%; sleeve 32 to 36) Quan. Color Neck size Sleeve Name Address City State D Check or M.O. enclosed D Send C.O.D o OkInawans were killed, but so many emigrants have since returned that the population is now up to six hundred and forty thousand. Thus, the population figures provide a far from accurate pic- ture of what the war did to Okinawa; it is more significant that the majority of the people today are under thirty, the average age is twenty, and there are a hundred and thIrteen women to every hundred men. ONE aspect of Okinawan life has not been changed by eIther the war 01 the Occupation, and that is its dedica- tion to pleasure. When the war ended, the islanders' traditional amusements were the first thIngs revived. Okinawa has always been famous for a snake known as the habu, a rare and extraor- dinarilv poisonous type of pit viper. This snake has never been any particular menace, because the island has also had a number of mongooses, and they have not only kept the snakes away from in- habited areas but supplied the Okina- wans with a favorite sport-the mon- goose-hahu fight. For ten yen, or eight cents, you can have one arranged for you, but the owner of the combatants is likely to stop the fight just as the mon- goose is ready for the kill (the snake never wins) and demand three times that sum for letting the battle continue. More expensive and considerably more complicated to arrange are the to gyu, or bullfights, the island's other national sport. Unlike the Spanish or Mexican contests, Okinawan bullfights are fights between bulls. The animals-they are imported from nearby islands, because the Okinawans can't stand seeing their own bulls injured-are traIned to gore and gouge each other until one gives up, but the fights are practically never fatal. The bullfight season begins in October and lasts about a month. Some of the villages near N aha maintain bull rings, which are fenced in wIth heavy stakes, to keep cowardly bulls from es- caping, and have rickety grandstands off to one side. Hundreds of people pile into one of these grandstands to see a day's performance-four or five pairs of bulls-and if the grandstand col- lapses, as it sometimes does, they take it in their stride. Like many Islanders in this part of the world, the Okinawans are celebrat- ed for their dancing. They have ritual dances for almost every activity in their daily lIves. In the fields, there are dances for every stage in the cultivation of rice, and in N aha there are several good- sized theatres In which) all the year round, troupes put on dance operas, OCTOBER 2, , 1954 -.,-- -- 1 .." , " Skaal " The W orld- Famous Beer . By Appointment to : THE ROYAL DANISH COURT THE ROYAL S\'V'EDISH COURT THE ROYAL GREEK COURT T . . . FROM WONDE.RFUL COPE.NHAGEN Tuborg Breweries, Ltd., Copenhagen, Denmark f f þ I ,(:;)......., - - .. Q \.;;: ....# FOR CH RISTMAS! , . , '.' ìP \rr I q -4 Give Authentic Bahamian Calypso! " I e, " I " RECORD ALBUMS SENT PO TPAID FROM NASSAU! 3 GREAT ALBUMS 31 hum- mable tunes as played by Blind Blake and his boys on the famous Starlight Terrace of the Royal Victoria Hotel- Peas and Rice, Brown Skin Gal, Delia's Gone and 28 others. ALSO A FOURTH album featur ing Blind Blake with the entire dance orchestra of Nassau's famous Lou Adams. Albums available on Art Records in all three speeds - 78 rpm ($6.50 per album), 33 LP ($5.95 per album), 45 ($4.95 and $3.95 per album), parcel post PREpaid for U. S. and Canada. ORDER NOW! Send check or money order (airmail postage to Nassau 10c per half-ounce). Specify record speeds and number of albums desired. Catalogue on request. SONGS OF THE ISLANDS, Ltd. c/o Royal Victoria Hotel, P.O. Box 1388 Nassau, Bahama Islands